In the past few weeks we saw Greece’s parliament adopt austerity measures demanded as conditionality by the IMF and Europe’s finance ministers in exchange for another round of Greek loans. So you’d think that the European sovereign debt crisis is under control, right? Wrong, two obvious reasons are the warnings … Continue reading →

Connecting the dots The revolt in Tunisia ushered in 2011, when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in front of the administrative building in the city of Sidi Bouzid. And in doing so lit the fuse that has detonated Egypt and threatens to topple the political order of the Maghreb, Yemen, and beyond. The reason … Continue reading →